Good Year Blessings from Rabbi Yisrael Lipschitz Author of Tiferet Yisrael – To Sir Moses Montefiore – Danzig ...

Good Year Blessings from Rabbi Yisrael Lipschitz Author of Tiferet Yisrael – To Sir Moses Montefiore – Danzig, Tishrei 1854
Lengthy and interesting letter, handwritten and signed by R. Yisrael Lipschitz, author of Tiferet Yisrael. Danzig (Gdańsk), Yom Kippur eve, 1854.
Addressed to Sir Moses Montefiore and his wife Yehudit, and enclosing a copy of the book Tiferet Yisrael on Order Kodashim (printed in Königsberg 1850). The letter begins with wishes for a "year of blessing and success" and concludes: "…so are the words of the one who loves you and reveres you, who extends his blessings to you for the new year and for a good final sealing, and wishes you a joyous festival – Yisrael Lipschitz".
In the body of the letter, R. Yisrael expresses his gratitude to the Montefiore family for their financial support in publishing the book, and refers to mentioning Sir Moses Montefiore and his wife on the title pages, in blessing: "I hereby present you with my book on order Kodashim which G-d granted me… take a look and see my honored ones, your names mentioned in blessing… on the title page… and the merit of the Holy Torah… and the merit of those who study this holy book, will stand for you, honored couple, and may your memory be blessed throughout the land, from the extremities of the Rhine river until the borders of Russia and Turkey, which is how far, G-d be praised, these books have reached, and may your names upon the title pages of Tiferet Yisrael glow like the luminaries light up the sky…".
R. Yisrael Lipschitz (1782-1860) is renowned for his monumental composition Tiferet Yisrael on the six orders of Mishna, which was accepted by the entire Jewish world and has been reprinted in hundreds of editions until this day. He was the son of R. Gedalia Lipschitz author of Regel Yeshara, and grandson of R. Yisrael Lipschitz Rabbi of Cleves. An outstanding Torah scholar and a foremost leader of German Jewry, he sat studying Torah the entire day, bedecked in Tallit and Tefillin beneath his outer coat, and was renowned as a holy and G-d fearing man. He served as rabbi for over fifty years, in the communities of Dessau, Danzig and others. Apart from Tiferet Yisrael on the Mishna, he composed many other books, of homilies, novellae and Halachic rulings.
[1] leaf, approx. 27 cm. Approx. 24 autograph lines and signature, in neat calligraphic script. Thin, blueish-grayish stationery. Fair-good condition. Tears and creases. Adhesive tape repairs.